id:			156111
accession number:	1991.44
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.44
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The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri), 1856. Sakai Basai (Japanese, dates unknown). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; painting only: 128.6 x 56.5 cm (50 5/8 x 22 1/4 in.); including mounting: 193.7 x 77.5 cm (76 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1991.44

title:				The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri)
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creation date:			1856
creation date earliest:		1856
creation date latest:		1856
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creditline:			Kelvin Smith Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Sakai Basai (Japanese, dates unknown)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 128.6 x 56.5 cm (50 5/8 x 22 1/4 in.); Including mounting: 193.7 x 77.5 cm (76 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
	opening date:   2018-01-02T05:00:00
	<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1991
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1991–
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wall description:
Dredging waterways to preserve their function once required the cooperation of large numbers of people, seen at the top of this painting. Sand-carrying festivals were historically associated with religious rites or gathering alms to construct places of worship, and involved not only the labor of collecting sand from rivers but also parades and performances marking the event. Kyoto’s Kamo River has been dredged many times over the centuries, including in 1856, the year this image was made. Although the title at the upper right says Taihei Kakan, or “Peaceful, Beautiful View,” the painter’s delightful scene reminds his audience that at the best of times, peace may have little to do with quiet. <br><br>Sakai Baisai was a student of literati painter Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783–1856). He was active until around 1879, when he relocated to Kobe to make his living as a design painter on porcelains destined for export.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. "Selected 1991 Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 72; Mentioned: p. 83
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350

	Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. <em>Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
	page number: 	p. 113
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IMAGES

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